By Michael Williams, Jennifer Sherwood and Rebekah Riess
Minneapolis (NCS) — White House border czar Tom Homan on Wednesday introduced that the Department of Homeland Security could be withdrawing 700 personnel from Minneapolis “effective immediately.”
Roughly 3,000 DHS personnel had been deployed to Minneapolis as a part of Operation Metro Surge, the immigration crackdown that started in early December. The conduct of these brokers has outraged residents and led to the deadly shootings of two US residents. Homan was deployed to Minneapolis following the killing of Alex Pretti final month.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says the drawdown “is not de-escalation,” whereas Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz known as it “a step in the right direction.”
“Operation Metro Surge is not making Minnesota safer. Today’s announcement is a step in the right direction, but we need a faster and larger drawdown of forces, state-led investigations into the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, and an end to this campaign of retribution,” Walz mentioned in a submit on X.
Homan mentioned the 700 personnel leaving will depart “right around 2,000” remaining within the metropolis.
“My goal, with the support of President Trump, is to achieve a complete drawdown … as soon as we can,” Homan added, “but that is largely contingent upon the end of the illegal and threatening activities against ice and its federal partners that we’re seeing in the community.”
Homan added {that a} “complete drawdown” would depend upon “cooperation” with native and state regulation enforcement and mentioned that they “want to get back to the original footprint” of immigration enforcement brokers in Minnesota.
His feedback come regardless of President Donald Trump’s earlier assurances that there could be no drawdown of personnel within the Twin Cities. Asked final Thursday if there have been plans to tug officers out, the president responded, “No, no, not at all.”
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